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UNITE-D STATES PATENT OFFICEL JOHN M. HARPER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND A. GOREY, OF SAME PLAGE.` Y

DEVICE FOR ARRANGING TYPE IN ROWS Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 71,610, dated December 3, 1867.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN M. HARPER, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Apparatus for Arranging rIypes in Rows; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the Same.

`to make and use myinvent-ion, I will now proceed to describe Athe mode of constructing and using the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a vertical section of my apparatus for arranging types of the same character in the same row; and Fig. 2, a transverse vertical section on the line 1 2, Fig. l.

A is a table or platform, supported on vsuitable legs, a a, and on this table is a ila-t plate or board, B, on which are ribs or partitions b,

arranged apart from each other, so as to form longitudinal grooves or channels for the admission of the type x. The plate B terminates abruptly at m, the upper corner being as close as possible to the surface of a roller, D, without being in absolute contacttherewith. The roller is arranged eccentrically with its journals e, which turn in suitable bearings on the table A.

Opposite the front end of each groove or channel, between the ribs b b and above the roller D, is a spout, E, for receiving the type.

It will be understood that although I have shown but two grooves for receiving two rows of types, the table A is so wide that as many grooves may be formed as there are different types t0 distribute, one groove being devoted to type having the same letter, figure, or other device.

The eccentric roller D is caused to revolve in the direction of the arrow, andthe distributer stations himself,with a mass of type in one hand, in frontof the spouts E, and with his other hand takes type after type anddrops them in the spout opposite the grooves in which they have to be arranged 1n rows. A type deposited in the spout slides clown the same and comes in contact with the roller, assuming the position shown at x', Fig. 1, from which position it is quickly drawn downward by the roller, owing to the eccentricity of the latter, until it rests with its lower end on the plate B, and is forced against the row of types m, previously introduced into the groove, the row' bearing against a block, i which, although arranged to slide freelyin the groove, is of weight', andhas friction sufficient on the same to maintain each type of the row in a vertical position.

The roller may have a surface of india-rubber, so as to have a better hold on the type and facilitate the dragging down of the same.

Although the above-descri bed apparatus may -be used to advantage for facilitating the proper o n of type, especially when that duty has to be performed by young beginners, it is more especially useful as an adjunct to the type-setting machine for which Letters Patent were granted to myself and Augustus Gorey, April 30, 1867, as the rows of type are arranged in proper order to be at once deposited in the several receptacles of the said type-setting machine.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patentv The within-described grooves for receiving the type, and the sliding blocks y, in combination with the eccentric vroller D and the spouts E, or their equivalents, the whole being arranged and operating substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN M. HARPER.

Witnesses:

CHARLES E. FOSTER, W. J. It. DELANY. 

